Quote Originally Posted by keithlm View Post
Most of the reviews show the 9850 having no problem winning a majority of the benchmarks against the Q6600. It was scoring about the same against the Q9300 as the Phenom 9600 scored against the Q6600.
Did you even read the reviews? Anandtech review has the Q6600 winning or tying every benchmark with a 9850 except for one video encoding test, Xbitlabs has the Q6600 winning every one while Matbe has the Q6600 comparable to a overclocked 2.9GHz Phenom.